the SkyScape planetarium

“SkyScape” is a planetarium program, which will calculate and display the positions of the planets and more than 9000 stars, for any given time and place on Earth.
It is easy to use, with attractive, versatile and accurate graphics, and is designed to help locate and identify planets, stars and constellations in the night sky.

I wrote it a few years ago, and still use it often. It’s provided
here, in a ready-to-use form, “as is”, without warranty, free of
charge, in the hope that it might be interesting to some, or even
useful. Enjoy!

“SkyScape” is a Java application, and can be run on Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows, and other computer operating systems having a standard Java graphical run-time environment installed.

Picture gallery :
Here are a few sample screen images, to show what it'll do.

Readme :
Read the program documentation. (This is also included in the download, and can be read using the Help menu in the running program.)

Download program :
This is an executable java file called skyscape.jar which you can save somewhere on your computer.
In a suitable graphical environment, you should then be able to run the program by (double?-) clicking on the file’s icon.
You will however need to have a Java Runtime or equivalent installed already.
Alternatively, a suitable command line to run the program would be something like java -jar skyscape.jar -
see the readme file for more details.

Verification: The SHA256 checksum of this jar file is:2385d94ebb311709894e40deebdd8d167e0151eb407d1415c084565bd4b79646 skyscape.jar

If you have tried using this program, please feel free to mail me any helpful :-) comments. Thanks.